Revisions are what CAD is all about. Back in the day of hand drafting, people had to use erasers and redraw everything even if it move an eighth of an inch. There were fancy erasing machines and erasing shields. Now that CAD allows you to change your mind and adjust drawings so quickly – we […]
Dimensions are one of the most well defined areas of AutoCAD and one of the most misunderstood. Misunderstood at the base level. Not many know all of the variables that need to be defined. If you think that DIMS are simple, just do a search in your AutoCAD help file for “dim” and look at […]
The DIM Variables (and the release they were introduced). Plus a quick outline of what they do. DIMADEC (R14) – Controls the number of precision places displayed in angular dimensions. DIMALT (R12) – Controls the display of alternate units in dimensions. DIMALTD (R12) – Controls the number of decimal places in alternate units. If DIMALT […]
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Here is a quick explanation (from Autodesk help files) for the new location of dimension commands in the Ribbon.
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New to AutoCAD are Annotative Dimensions. Annotation scaling allows you to plot annotation text at the same height or size regardless of the viewport zoom scale. Annotation scales can be associated with annotative objects in AutoCAD so that these objects can be sized properly for specific annotation scales in model space and displayed correctly in […]
Adding a Date stamp or Plot stamp to the drawings is something that I have done for many years. It is a little piece of text that is located on your border that is updated every time you open your files. It is created with Fields. It is not part of the titleblock because it […]
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Tables are not very widely adopted by AutoCAD users but your standard needs to address them. They include text objects – so I include this discussion here… Are you going to use them? Do you develop standard Tables? Can users create their own? Define the items that need input or save them as a Table […]
Sorted by Discipline: Architectural: None – there is no text (in general) that I feel would be design text Civil: Contours Surface Item Callouts Pipe Sizes and Commodities Reference text used by other disciplines Building Names Stationing Street names Spot elevations Structural: Member Sizes Design Callouts Column Sizes Electrical: Fixture Numbers Circuit Numbers Room Names […]
Some of these types of charts might be good to include in your standard.
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